...Virtue, morality, and religion. This is the armor, my friend, and this alone that renders us invincible. These are the tactics we should study. If we lose these, we are conquered, fallen indeed...
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Tuesday, September 22, 2009

Pelosi Astrotearing For ObamasCare

Nana Pelosi remembers those years in tears. Those days being when Democrats were murdering Democrats in California and those remembrances cause her fear and tears as she tries to lay the groundwork for all the unions, leftist organizers, and administration personnel to make America cry for ObamasCare.

Her launch board was Astrotearing for civility and Astroturfing protests against insurance companies. I have to assume that her civility includes not using inflammatory rhetoric such as un-American,, Nazi and other slurs.

Now that we've all enjoyed that fine performance of Astrotearing for health and civility we can now look forward to the Astrosurfing section of their political drama; hating on insurance companies.

Health reformers targeting 'enemies'But Health Care for America Now (HCAN), which is backed by a coalition of labor unions and liberal groups including ACORN and MoveOn.org, organized the protests to target insurance companies and drafted the plan, which describes the demonstrations as part of its "insurance enemies project." The document, a copy of which was obtained by The Washington Times, details specific talking points, tactics, props and strategies to stage the protests. It lists goals that include action that "mobilizes our base by animating existing anger about private insurers."

The HCAN field plan dictates that each protest will include a minimum of 30 participants, target only health care insurers CIGNA, WellPoint and United Health Care and showcase what it calls "victims," or people who have either lost insurance, can't afford it or were denied coverage because of pre-existing medical conditions.

"We built a campaign to win health care reform and that is exactly what we are working on," said HCAN national spokeswoman Jacki Schechner, who authenticated the documents. But she asserted: "There is nothing top-down about this."

Nah, nothing top-down about this.

HCAN designed the demonstrations set for Tuesday to "help shape new national narrative around the national health care debate" by vilifying insurance companies, according to the field plan. The strategy aims to sway Capitol Hill lawmakers by making them choose between voting for the president's health care reforms or siding with insurance companies.

Street theater always has to have some good ole pathos (and humor it appears), so bring on the no top-down faux victims and clerics to make demands a stalk insurance company executives.

Tactics listed in the field plan include "large-scale rally or march to insurance company with victims leading delegation in to speak to CEO or other spokesperson." It suggests materials or props including signs, pictures and "good stories that embody our key message."Under the heading "escalation," the plan advises: "We could start with a delivery to the office and then escalate by bird-dogging the CEO or company by bringing smaller delegations every day to this location or others until we get an answer." Another tactic described in the document is "vigils featuring faith leaders [or] clergy" who visits insurance company office with the demand. For props, it suggest using "spokespeople who can wear clerical uniforms."

It directs the protesters to "escalate by increasing the involvement of congregations to take small actions; hosting more vigils that invite the insurance companies to repent."

Obama and his buds haven't said anything about all this mixing of religion and government, but it has been heard that Thomas Jefferson reportedly growled, "I wish I never wrote that damned letter."

Now, if Jefferson had stated "a wall of separation" between foreign funded political groups and unions and government, A lot of citizens would get solidly behind that idea.

Paula Nowakowski

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